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As many NYC public schools adapt to life in full or overcrowded school buildings, charter school co-locations have been targeted for blame. To get beyond warring anecdotes, we took a look at the DOE's latest "Blue Book" data on building utilization across the city.

Today, the NYC Department of Education released its 2010-11 progress reports for high schools. (See our breakdown of the K-8 progress reports.) The reports assign a letter grade to each school, based on student test scores, student progress, attendance, and “learning environment” survey results are all heavily weighted to account for differing student characteristics.

Nearly one million parents, teachers, and secondary students completed the Learning Environment Surveys in 2010-11. Find out how charter schools’ results were different in general, or drill down into specific questions.

We spent the week guest blogging over at Eduwonk.com, the Ed Reform blog by Bellwether Education Partners' Andrew Rotherham. Here's a round-up of all of the posts from Monday, October 3 to Friday, October 7.

It's not every day that you have an opportunity to make a big difference with very little effort expended. This is one of those days. East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP), a gem in the Harlem educational community, is part of Chase's annual million dollar grant contest on Facebook. Voting ends tomorrow, October 5, at 12:OO PM EST so vote today!

Today, the NYC Department of Education (DOE) released its 2010-11 Progress Reports for public schools serving grades K-8, including charter schools. Overall, charter schools’ grades are improved from the previous year. More than a third of all charter schools, and half of charter middle schools, received an A grade.

As has been widely reported (Times, Daily News, Reuters), Justice Feinman of New York Supreme Court recently dismissed the lawsuit (referred to as Steglich) aimed at seeking to stop the co-location of Upper West Success Academy Charter School in the Brandeis campus.

The Charter Center is committed to a sector built upon accountability and results for kids. Accordingly, we have conducted an analysis of New York City charter school state test scores that will allow the public to better understand the performance of individual schools and the sector overall.

When charter school critics wax eloquent about traditional school districts, I always wonder (sometimes out loud) when they became enamored of the Department of Education bureaucracy. I know many principals and teachers don’t share that affection.